Word: objectively
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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More than in Christmases past, Americans spent money for high-priced quality items. "It was a luxury kind of Christmas," says Hal Silver, chairman of Kaufmann's in Pittsburgh. Adds Gordon Cooke, senior vice president for sales promotion at Bloomingdale's: "Price was no object." The French-made metal-housed Cuisinart, which slices, dices, chops, minces and shreds faster than conventional individual tools, sells for $225. Yet it and lower-priced competitors (La Machine, Omnichef) flew off shelves so fast that almost no store could seem to keep them in stock. Neiman-Marcus in Houston sold 24 West...
...defense of a just cause would I take up arms, so to speak. For now I felt I had stepped into a vaster and more beautiful world and my capacity for endurance redoubled. I felt I could stand the pressure whatever the magnitude of a given problem. My paramount object was to make people happy. To see a smile, to feel that another man's heart beat for joy was to me a source of immeasurable happiness. I identified with people's joys...
...probably agree, but the idea must also be approved by 30 Western Hemisphere countries that belong to the World Meteorological Organization, which will meet next May and perform the usual chore of selecting a list of names for the following year's hurricanes. Some representatives are expected to object to the change out of masculine pride. But others might propose French and Spanish names for reasons of national pride. By comparison, the debate over gender could be only a passing squall...
...Tolkien fantasy is by no means the most complex monster rally available; a small Wisconsin firm called TSR Hobbies Inc. sells a bewildering three-volume manual for a mind game called Dungeons & Dragons, whose object is to wrest treasure from the loathsome beings that guard it. The game involves a dungeon of six or more descending levels drawn on graph paper and includes such monsters as Balrogs, Purple Worms, Giant Leeches, Nixies, Griffons and Invisible Stalkers. Players take the characters of men, hobbits, elves or dwarfs and fight or hunt treasure according to elaborate rules: "The charisma score is usable...
Such clubhouse connections make Madigan an object of contempt among many peers, who, nonetheless, would do well to heed him. "John's criticism is first-rate," says John Calloway, news director of the local public television station, "but the question is whether his coziness destroys his credibility elsewhere...